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Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
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Call for Applications for

INTERNATIONAL PHD PROJECTS IN INTELLIGENT COMPUTING

Coordinator: Slawomir Zadrozny, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences)

launched by

Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland

financed by the

European Regional Development Fund
under the
Operational Programme Innovative Economy
operated by
Foundation for Polish Science (FNP)
in the framework of the International PhD Projects Programme (MPD)

--> The candidates from all around the world may apply to carry out one of the proposed 15 research projects!
--> The successful candidates will be supervised by leading Polish and foreign experts in a cutting edge computer science area!
--> They will be provided with scholarships!
--> They will spend at least 6 months with foreign partners – leading academic institutions in Europe and beyond:

Department of Information Technologies, Abo Akademi University, Abo, Finland
European Centre for Soft Computing, Mieres, Spain
Faculty of Engineering/Department of Telecommunications and Information, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Computer Science and Communication Research Unit, Luxembourg University, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia
Centro de Investigacion en Technologias de la Informacion y las Communicaciones, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Fakultät für Informatik, The Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Computer Science Department, College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA
Faculty of Sciences, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
Laboratoire d'Informatiqe de Paris 6, University P. and M. Curie – CNRS, Paris, France
Machine Intelligence Institute, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY USA
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Department of Risk Engineering, School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan


The project provides PhD students with a unique opportunity to conduct research under the supervision of leading scientists and prepare their PhD dissertations in one of the most innovative fields of science. It is expected that the project will result in both new theoretical findings concerning the foundations of Intelligent Computing and in novel applications in the areas of multi-agent technologies, data analysis and mining, decision support systems and other. There will be 15 PhD students working within the project, selected in a careful recruitment process taking into account e.g., the background of the candidates and their good command of English.

The recruitment is under way - details are given here: http://mpd.ibspan.waw.pl
Deadline is September 30, 2010.

Second Call for Applications is planned for the end of this year.